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Clare Morgan, a biologist and sports nutritionist, spent five years on benzodiazepine tranquillisers after being misdiagnosed with a mental health condition she did not have

Clare Morgan, a biologist and sports nutritionist, spent five years on
benzodiazepine tranquillisers after being misdiagnosed with a mental health
condition she did not have. When she deteriorated, she was prescribed
anti-depressants and anti-psychotics, and spent months on a cocktail of 11
drugs, until a new GP finally began treating her hormonal and adrenal
problems. “These drugs took me to hell and back, I lost everything, my
friends, my home, my job, my partner and eventually my sanity (for a while
that is),” she said.

Two years after coming off the drugs, she has shared the harrowing diary
she wrote